R

R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is similar to the S language and environment developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies). R provides a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible.

Availability & Restrictions

R is available to all OSC users without restriction.

The following versions of R are available on OSC systems:

Version

Glenn

Oakley

2.5.1

X

2.8.0

X

2.11.1

X

2.14.1

X

2.15.0

X

X

2.15.2

X

X

3.0.1

X

X

Usage

Set-up

In order to configure your environment for the usage of R, run the following command:

module load R

Using R

Once your environment is configured, R can be started simply by entering the following (rediculously short) command:

R

For a listing of command line options, run:

R --help

Batch Usage

Running R interactivly is not recommended and may violate OSC usage policy. In order to run R in batch, refrence the example batch script below. This script requests one full node on the Oakley cluster for 1 hour of walltime.